Improvement in heel-plates



PATENT QFFIOE.

HENRY L. DRAKE, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEEL-PLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,500, dated June 3, 1873; application filed February 8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY L. DRAKE, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have in vented certain In: prove ments in Heel Plates, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l of the accompanying drawing is a top view of a top plate of a boot or shoe heeling machine, and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same taken in the line A B frequent failure of the knife to out closely to the heel plate, which, together with the pressure of the heel on the plate, causes a protruding edge or lip to be formed that requires the time and labor of the operator to remove, he being obliged to go over the work and trim off the lip by hand, labor, and often producing an uneven-and unfinished appearing heel, as a person in shaving or scouring the heel is apt, owing to the position of the heel, to be unable to see, so as as to properly cut the top piece, thereby leaving it uneven and unsightly, the lip being taken off in one place and left on in another.

In order to obviate the objections abovementioned, and to form a perfectly-shaped top f piece at one operation, and secure an even and a finished appearing lnel, I form the upper and heel portion of the top plate with an upper projecting cutting edge or rim, as shown in i the accompanying drawings by the letter a, so that when the machine is operated the pressure of the boot or shoe against the top plate causes the top piece to be cut by the edge a,

so as to form a perfect shape without any extra,

trimming. i

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim as my invent-ion, and desire to have secured to me byLetters Patent, 1s

A top plate of a boot or shoe hceling machine formed with a cutting-edge, a, substantial] y as described and shown, and for the purposes specified.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my.

name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY L. DRAKE. Witnesses:

CARROLL D. WRIGHT, SAMUEL M. BARTON. 

